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Doubt RK cares much about the £5-10m difference it would make by rolling out the "no comment" line. Probs just wants rid of a player that blatantly doesn't want to part of his squad.

Says he wants to keep him (despite the entire world knowing Ross won't sign a deal) gets you about £25m. Saying he's going to be sold no matter what (with the knowledge that the entire world knowing Ross won't sign a deal) gets you £20m. Not that big of a deal what RK says imo. Feels like people are nitpicking tbh.

I'm not doing a line by line of every chairman in the league. Obviously some are cunts and have treated their clubs terribly. Though I do wish you were right and that was what BK was known for.

Look I'm not accusing anyone on here of racism. This idea that Levy is tight with money is one that's taken hold across the nation, and people here are just parroting it without thinking about its roots. My view is that it’s a lazy view that’s been applied because of a couple of key events and then stuck because it conforms to a longstanding stereotype of Jews being tight or good with money… And Daniel Levy sounds Jewish and is Chairman of the “Jewish” club. So after a couple of deals like the Bale one, he developed a reputation as a hard negotiator and then the stereotype has stuck.

But the reality is he’s no more “tight” or a “harder negotiator” than most other Chairmen, except those ones in possession of ridiculous levels of wealth. Levy’s just not that rich. You know how it goes, people have massive confirmation bias and ignore facts that don’t align to their view of reality. So Levy spunks £32m on Sissoko, a ludicrously shite player at a ludicrously high price, negotiated horribly on the last day of the season, yet people still think Levy is tight and some master negotiator. He could even go do something idiotic like spend £40m on Ross Barkley with 12 months to go on his contract, and in 2 months there’d still be posts on here about him describing him as tight.

Frankly I’m surprised you don’t see it. It’s not like we live in some post-racist society where some people don’t hold negative views or stereotypes about Jews.

No mate. You asked for another chairman know for being a tight arse so I gave you four. Whether you've enlightened me and brought my confirmation bias to my attention is beside the point.

Every now and again players run down contracts. He seemed up for the Chelsea move but I'd imagine he got a text from a Spurs connection telling him to sit tight and put his feet up for 3 months.

Doesn't mean he's about to throw himself off a bridge, purposefully did Everton out of 35m out of spite, or got fed up of having no mates his own age. He's just acting how some professional athletes act.